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• Bookmark The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

  There has been a rash of books on human evolution in recent years, claiming that it was driven by art (Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct), cooking (Richard Wrangham: Catching Fire), sexual…

  September 8 2010, 3:20am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Will the Book Survive Generation Text?

  Over the next 10 years, scientific experts will be dealing with "extreme weather." No one knows how weird and dangerous it will get. Moscow already faces Bahrain-like temperatures. Downpours swamp a…

  September 1 2010, 11:17am | Comments

• Bookmark CERN Podcast | Chris Morris

  Chris Morris is considered to be one of the greatest satirists ever and has been responsible for some of the most controversial, and let’s face it funny, programmes on television. In…

  August 28 2010, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Svetlana Boym | Off-Modern Manifesto

  “It's not my fault. Communication error has occurred,” my computer pleads with me in a voice of lady Victoria. First it excuses itself, then urges me to pay attention, to check…

  August 16 2010, 5:22am | Comments

• Flickr forgotten

  August 3 2010, 12:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Means the End of Forgetting

  When historians of the future look back on the perils of the early digital age, Stacy Snyder may well be an icon. The problem she faced is only one example of…

  July 25 2010, 7:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Ball of Mud

  The notion of SHEARING LAYERS is one of the centerpieces of Brand's How Buildings Learn [Brand 1994]. Brand, in turn synthesized his ideas from a variety of sources, including British designer…

  July 18 2010, 6:09am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Critical Code Studies

  by Mark C. Marino The computer does not understand what it says. Literally speaking, the computer does not even interpret that code. When the function is called, the computer will print…

  June 21 2010, 3:30am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday

  While the flesh-and-blood version of Mr. Brin sat miles away at a computer capable of remotely steering a robot, the gizmo rolling around here consisted of a printer-size base with wheels…

  June 17 2010, 3:26am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Tumblr Neutrinos are some of the most abundant yet mysterious particles in our unive...

  June 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Frameworks for citizen responsiveness, enhanced: Toward a read/write urbanism

  Provided that, we can treat the things we encounter in urban environments as system resources, rather than a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks. One prospect that seems…

  April 27 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• Hello Grandad This Tongue

  April 19 2010, 6:31am | Comments

• Bookmark 'It's time to let you hear the song which earned me a…

  Aged 17, I set about writing a song for a girl I was obsessed with. When she heard it, she called the police. Have a listen – you'll understand why. I've…

  April 9 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion

  Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens confront the faithful head-on, but there may be another way to dispel religious beliefs. I am not so sure about this. In my experience,…

  April 4 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• Bookmark No Bones about It: Ancient DNA from Siberia Hints at Previously Unknown…

  For much of the past five million to seven million years over which humans have been evolving, multiple species of our forebears co-existed. But eventually the other lineages went extinct, leaving…

  March 26 2010, 6:07am | Comments

• Bookmark The Brain: Look Deep Into the Mind's Eye

  When the scientists tested the mind’s eye of MX, though, the difference was stark. The researchers gave all their subjects a standardized test called the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire. They…

  March 26 2010, 5:53am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 26 2010, 5:21am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark If Odysseus Had GPS

  When Robinson Crusoe was stranded on a tropical island he did pretty well for himself, all things considered. But to the rest of the world he was as good as dead.…

  March 21 2010, 12:54pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark Myriahedral projection maps of the world

  A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out the…

  December 23 2009, 2:50am | Comments

• Flickr Plastic sneeuwstormbeschermer / Face protection from snowstorms

  December 18 2009, 5:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The dark side of the internet

  In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography. The modern internet is often thought of as a miracle of openness…

  December 8 2009, 7:14am | Comments

• Flickr Michael Unwrapped

  December 8 2009, 4:17am | Comments

• Portfolio Podcasts Ahoy!

  December 7 2009, 11:44am | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

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• Bookmark The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

  There has been a rash of books on human evolution in recent years, claiming that it was driven by art (Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct), cooking (Richard Wrangham: Catching Fire), sexual…

  September 8 2010, 3:20am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Will the Book Survive Generation Text?

  Over the next 10 years, scientific experts will be dealing with "extreme weather." No one knows how weird and dangerous it will get. Moscow already faces Bahrain-like temperatures. Downpours swamp a…

  September 1 2010, 11:17am | Comments

• Bookmark CERN Podcast | Chris Morris

  Chris Morris is considered to be one of the greatest satirists ever and has been responsible for some of the most controversial, and let’s face it funny, programmes on television. In…

  August 28 2010, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Svetlana Boym | Off-Modern Manifesto

  “It's not my fault. Communication error has occurred,” my computer pleads with me in a voice of lady Victoria. First it excuses itself, then urges me to pay attention, to check…

  August 16 2010, 5:22am | Comments

• Flickr forgotten

  August 3 2010, 12:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Means the End of Forgetting

  When historians of the future look back on the perils of the early digital age, Stacy Snyder may well be an icon. The problem she faced is only one example of…

  July 25 2010, 7:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Big Ball of Mud

  The notion of SHEARING LAYERS is one of the centerpieces of Brand's How Buildings Learn [Brand 1994]. Brand, in turn synthesized his ideas from a variety of sources, including British designer…

  July 18 2010, 6:09am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Critical Code Studies

  by Mark C. Marino The computer does not understand what it says. Literally speaking, the computer does not even interpret that code. When the function is called, the computer will print…

  June 21 2010, 3:30am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday

  While the flesh-and-blood version of Mr. Brin sat miles away at a computer capable of remotely steering a robot, the gizmo rolling around here consisted of a printer-size base with wheels…

  June 17 2010, 3:26am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Tumblr Neutrinos are some of the most abundant yet mysterious particles in our unive...

  June 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Frameworks for citizen responsiveness, enhanced: Toward a read/write urbanism

  Provided that, we can treat the things we encounter in urban environments as system resources, rather than a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks. One prospect that seems…

  April 27 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• Hello Grandad This Tongue

  April 19 2010, 6:31am | Comments

• Bookmark 'It's time to let you hear the song which earned me a…

  Aged 17, I set about writing a song for a girl I was obsessed with. When she heard it, she called the police. Have a listen – you'll understand why. I've…

  April 9 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion

  Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens confront the faithful head-on, but there may be another way to dispel religious beliefs. I am not so sure about this. In my experience,…

  April 4 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• Bookmark No Bones about It: Ancient DNA from Siberia Hints at Previously Unknown…

  For much of the past five million to seven million years over which humans have been evolving, multiple species of our forebears co-existed. But eventually the other lineages went extinct, leaving…

  March 26 2010, 6:07am | Comments

• Bookmark The Brain: Look Deep Into the Mind's Eye

  When the scientists tested the mind’s eye of MX, though, the difference was stark. The researchers gave all their subjects a standardized test called the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire. They…

  March 26 2010, 5:53am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 26 2010, 5:21am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark If Odysseus Had GPS

  When Robinson Crusoe was stranded on a tropical island he did pretty well for himself, all things considered. But to the rest of the world he was as good as dead.…

  March 21 2010, 12:54pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark Myriahedral projection maps of the world

  A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out the…

  December 23 2009, 2:50am | Comments

• Flickr Plastic sneeuwstormbeschermer / Face protection from snowstorms

  December 18 2009, 5:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The dark side of the internet

  In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography. The modern internet is often thought of as a miracle of openness…

  December 8 2009, 7:14am | Comments

• Flickr Michael Unwrapped

  December 8 2009, 4:17am | Comments

• Portfolio Podcasts Ahoy!

  December 7 2009, 11:44am | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

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